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Biennial report of the state librarian

Biennial report of the North Carolina State Library (reorganized July 1, 1956)

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EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT
OF THE
STATE mUM
(Reorganized July 1, 1956)
July 1,1970- June 30, 1972
Raleigh
North Carolina
EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT
OF THE
STATE LIByRY
(Reorganized July 1, 1956)
July 1, 1970- June 30, 1972
Raleigh
North Carolina
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
Raleigh, North Carohna
To His Excellency ROBERT W. SCOTT
Governor of North Carolina, Raleigh
My dear Sir:
We have the honor to submit to you the Eighth Biennial Report
of the North Carolina State Library covering the biennium ending
June 30, 1972. This is in compliance with the General Statutes of
North Carolina, Chapter 125.
Respectfully submitted,
MRS. GORDON TOMLINSON
Chairman, North Carolina State
Library Board
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Service and Organizational Chart 6
Board Members and Administration 7
Appropriations and Expenditures — State Funds 8
Appropriations and Expenditures — Federal Funds 9
Narrative Report 12
Special Projects 14
Special Services Division 15
Information Services Division 16
Consultant Services to Other State Agencies 18
Technical Services Division 18
Public Library Development Division 19
In Retrospect 23
Statistical Data 24
NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY 7
BOARD
Appointed by the Governor:
MRS. GORDON TOMLINSON, Mocksville, Chairman
Term Expires 1973
MRS. MOLLIE HUSTON LEE, Durham Term Expires 1973
MRS. T.T. POTTER, Beaufort Term Expires 1977
MR. ROBERT B. WILSON, Winston-Salem Term Expires 1975
MR. JOHN DAYTON WINEBARGER, Boone Term Expires 1977
MRS. JULIAN E. WINSLOW, Hertford Term Expires 1975
Ex Officio:
DR. JERROLD ORNE, Chapel Hill
DR. A. CRAIG PHILLIPS, Raleigh
STATE LIBRARIAN - Philip S. Ogilvie
ASSISTANT STATE LIBRARIAN - Elaine von Oesen
BUDGET. PERSONNEL. AND PURCHASING OFFICER -
Mrs. Ruby B. Holloway
ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY TO STATE LIBRARIAN -
Mrs. Betsy N. Pearce
EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT
FINANCIAL REPORT
EXPENDITURES
State Funds
NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY
EXPENDITURES
Federal Funds
10 EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT
EXPENDITURES
Federal Funds — Continued
NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY 11
EXPENDITURES
Federal Funds — Continued
12 EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT
OF THE
NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY
Biennial reports are essentially recorded history. As such they
include both drama and trauma as interacting forces shaping pro-gress
for the covered period and laying a foundation for future
developments. Both were present and active in the eighth bien-nium
of the North Carolina State Library, now officially designated
as the Office of State Library of the North Carolina Department
of Art, Culture and History, and in the libraries and institutions
with which it collaborates in service to the people of the state.
Each left its mark upon the biennium and its influence to bear
upon the future as State Library and cooperating agencies made
their ways with varied gaits, sometimes skipping across sunny
meadows of progress, but as often lumbering through shadowy
jungles of problems from July 1, 1970 through June 30, 1972.
The eighth biennial journey of the State Library and its com-panions
in service got off to a good start. Encouragement and
support of library-aware, library-concerned Governor, State Legis-lature
and Congressional Delegation plus that of other friends of
libraries including library-dedicated local and state Ubrary boards
and staffs. North Carolinians for Better Libraries and state, regional
and national library associations were easily discernible. The Ad-visory
Budget Commission held a special hearing on the programs
and long-range goals of the State Library weeks in advance of the
usual budget request hearings. Governor Robert W. Scott made a
major library oriented speech early in the biennium and Mrs.
Scott made two. The Governor also moved to sustain the strength
of and improve the geographical representation of the State Lib-rary
Board of Trustees by appointing to its membership for terms
ending June 30, 1975, Robert B. Wilson, Jr., of Forsyth County
and Mrs. Julian E. Winslow of Perquimans County each of whom
brought to it interest and enthusiasm to match that of Paul S.
Ballance and Richard C. Erwin, Sr., both of Forsyth County whose
terms had expired. Later Governor Scott appointed to that body
Mrs. Mollie H. Lee of Durham County to complete the unexpired
term of Mrs. Lois S. Neal of Catawba County who had resigned
to rejoin the staff of the State Library and whose term on the
board was to run through June 30, 1973, and still later he reap-
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pointed to the board for terms to expire June 30, 1977, Mrs. T.T.
Potter of Carteret County and John Dayton Winebarger of Watauga
County thereby maintaining wide geographical representation and
restoring minority representation on the board as begun by former
Governor Dan K. Moore.
In the meanwhile, the 1969 General Assembly had already pro-vided
an increase of $500,000 in Aid to Public Libraries for 1970-
1971, and among electees to the State Legislature in the fall of
1970 were numerous senators and representatives of both major
political parties who were outspokenly interested in providing
additional Aid to Public Libraries as well as particularly interested
in increasing support of the State Library itself to enable it to
increase its services with less reliance on unpredictable federal
funding. Of special interest to them was expansion and improve-ment
of the North Carolina Interhbrary Services Network linking
academic, public and special libraries with and through the State
Library by telecommunications for the sharing of information and
materials resources. And, when the 1971 General Assembly ad-journed
it had added well over half a million dollars for these pur-poses
for the second year of the eighth biennium with $200,000
earmarked for increased Aid to Public Libraries and about $136,
000 for the North Carolina Interlibrary Services Network.
Even so, the eighth biennium was filled with apprehension
about the possible effects of State Government Reorganization.
The State Library Board expressed a specific desire to be tied in
with Education if the State Library could not remain a separate
entity and the State Librarian suggested as an alternative the possi-ble
creation of a State Department of Information Resources of
which the State Library would be a component. Consequently ini-tial
reaction to inclusion in the Department of Art, Culture and
History was disappointment. After the Honorable Sam Ragan was
appointed first Secretary of the new department, however, reor-ganization
moved forward amicably and with reassurance that the
long-range goals of the State Library had not suffered in the trans-lation.
There was also concern at the beginning and throughout the
biennium about rumored changes of emphasis in priorities for
expenditure of funds received under the Library Services and
Construction Act as well as fear that the Act might not be funded
at all by Congress in the face of Administration inclinations to
phase out catagorical grant programs in favor of as yet inade-quately
defined revenue sharing proposals. As it turned out changes
in priorities did occur along with an increase in funding of the Act,
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and some public librarians met the challenge with some startlingly
imaginative and productive projects bearing little resemblance to
traditional library services with the result that drama seemed
clearly to be triumphing over trauma and confidence was allaying
fear.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
13 special public Hbrary projects directed to the needs of the
disadvantaged won approval of the State Library Board in the
second year of the biennium for funding under Title I of the
Library Services and Construction Act. One having to do with
the acquisition of Black literature and requiring $56,420 for im-plementation
was designed to give every county a share in this
high priority funding. Another, "Public Library Action for Child-ren's
Education (PLACE)," conceived by Mrs. Patricia H. Heide-mann,
Children's Librarian, Forsyth County Library, fostered and
encouraged by Paul S. Ballance, retiring Forsyth County Library
Director, and Nicholas M. Meiszer, Forsyth County Manager, and
refined by Ms. Jane B. Wilson, Children's Services Specialist on
the State Library staff, won the immediate attention and plaudits
of regional and national library officials involved with federally
funded library programs and attracted the interest of local and
regional Model Cities officials in working cooperatively with it.
The project had built into it unlimited research possibilities, inten-tional
involvement of inner-city residents and socially rehabilitated
persons as staff and sophisticated plans for evaluation of the pro-gram
by an academic consortium representing varied disciphnes.
It also had the distinction of being one of the largest, if not the
largest, public library project for the disadvantaged developed
with Library Services and Construction Act funds in the Southeast,
and was visited in February, 1972, by Henry T. Drennan, Senior
Program Officer, Library Research and Development, United
States Office of Education, Washington, D. C, and Ms. Shirley
Brother, Library Services Program Officer, Bureau of Libraries
and Learning Resources, United States Office of Education, Region
IV, Atlanta, Georgia.
Other approved projects, some of them equally exciting but of
smaller proportions, were "Parnassus Project (Outreach Program of
Library Services to the Economically Disadvantaged)," Gaston-
Lincoln Regional Library; "Project Outreach," Bladen County
Public Library; "Multi-Media on Wheels," Columbus County
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Public Library; "Humpty-Dumpty (Appalachian Outreach Pro-gram),"
Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional Library; "Extension Ser-vice,"
Randolph Public Library; "In with the People," Pubhc
Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County; "Special Library
Services for the Disadvantaged," Sandhill Regional Library Sys-tem;
"Services to Elderly, Disabled and Handicapped," Central
North Carolina Regional Library; "Operation Weekend," North-western
Regional Library; "REACH (Reaching Every Adult and
Child Here)," Appalachian Regional Library and "Library Service
for the Aging," Durham City-County Pubhc Library.
SPECIAL SERVICES DIVISION
While such public library projects for the disadvantaged were
making history across the state, the Special Services Division of
the State Library directed by Mrs. Marian P. Leith was using
Title IV-A and IV-B funds from the Library Services and Construc-tion
Act and increases in state support to make history in state
institutions and in serving the physically handicapped including
the blind throughout North Carolina. 18,840 institutionalized
North Carolinians were receiving library services at the end of the
eighth biennium as compared with only 15,204 two years earher.
Of the less than 10,000 of the estimated total average institu-tionalized
population of 27.000 annually who were not yet re-ceiving
such services most were in road camps of the State Depart-ment
of Corrections. Even inmates of those institutions vvere
participating in a pilot paperback project in 14 camps in Western
North Carolina and some other camps around the state were re-ceiving
service from nearby public libraries. Among the latter was
a library program initiated by the Appalachian Regional Library
in Wilkes County with special encouragement from Regional
Library Director Charles Abel and formally inaugurated by Com-missioner
Lee Bounds.
Simultaneous with these developments were increases in service
to the physically handicapped including the blind. Talking Book
service continued to be in most demand, but there were steady
increases in the use of Braille, tapes and the newer cassettes. North
Carolina users of these services increased from 4,681 to 7,590 dur-ing
the biennium and an additional 2,545 South Carolina readers
being served by contract from our Dale Street headquarters in
Raleigh were taxing the capacities of staff and quarters to keep up
with circulation and housing of the Talking Book collection in
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particular. As a consequence a decision was made at the end of the
eighth biennium to notify the South Carolina State Library that
effective July 1, 1973, it would be expected to assume responsi-bility
for Talking Book service in that state although our Special
Services Division would continue to handle Braille, tape and cass-ette
services for South Carolinians under an adjusted contract if
that was desired.
INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION
The Information Services (formerly Reference Services) Divi-sion,
too, saw dramatic growth during the eighth biennium. It
also experienced its own particular trauma that was felt through-out
the State Library when Genealogy Librarian Margaret Bird-song
Price, a member of the staff of the State Library in excess
of 44 years, died September 6, 1971, after a brief bout with can-cer.
It has been noted elsewhere that despite her preoccupation
with the past as a genealogist, Margaret Price was attuned to the
times in which she lived and was turned off completely by inflexi-ble,
self-righteous traditionalists who made of rank, race, religion
and imaginary slights cases for disruptive actions and attitudes
undermining staff performance and morale. One of her last major
contributions to the overall good of the State Library and the
specific resolution of a divisional problem was the quiet conduct-ing
of an informal survey of staff preferences for a successor to
Ms. M. Sangster Parrott who had resigned as division director to
accept a full-time teaching position with the Department of
Library Science at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.
Thus it happened that some new, valuable programs were initiated
and existing programs expanded in the Information Services Divi-sion
during the eighth biennium under the capable leadership of
Ms. Parrott and her successor, David T. Bevan, overwhelming
choice of the majority of the professional and paraprofessional
members of the division staff to succeed Ms. Parrott.
The North Carolina Interlibrary Services Network (IN-WATS)
was expanded to serve Technical Institutes, Community Colleges
and other two-year colleges as promised and brought the number
of academic, public and special libraries being served to 218. Evi-dence
that two-year academic institutions were ready to use this
service was indicated by the fact that of the 18,610 IN-WATS
calls received during the biennium, 861 were received from two-year
colleges and technical institutes during the 9 months they
were eligible to receive the service.
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Contractual arrangements were made with the hbraries at the
University of North Carohna, North Carohna State University,
and Duke University beginning at the same time the service was
expanded to serve two-year institutions and calhng for "on demand
cooperation in supplying network service including information
and library materials by way of reference service, photoduplication
of materials or interlibrary loans." And, Interlibrary Services Net-work
staff at the State Library took on the task of initiating inter-library
loan requests received via IN-WATS from public libraries,
wrote and distributed a manual describing services available and
instructions for use of the network and otherwise improved on
procedures to facilitate rapid and efficient response. In the mean-while,
Title III funds received under the Library Services and Con-struction
Act were still being used to maintain and increase access
to the North Carolina Union Catalog at Chapel Hill, and in the
second year of the biennium over half of the anticipated 104
microfilm reels of that catalog which lists more than 2 milhon
titles and locates them in some type of library in the state were
received at the State Library and in use thereby reducing time lag
caused by TWX requests for locations. In fact public libraries
could be assured that if a location were found for a title in the
state the interlibrary loan form would be typed and in the mail
the same morning and efforts were underway to expedite matters
even farther by arrangements to call ahead to libraries whereof
materials were being requested and to encourage them to get the
materials in the mails to requesting Hbraries in advance of actual
receipt of the interlibrary loan form on the way to them at the
time.
Another development of special significance was the program
for distribution from the 1970 United States Census of Population
and Housing of useful statistical data. The Louis Round Wilson
Library of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the
State Library jointly acquired the 1 970 Census Summary Tapes
for North Carolina and contiguous states and deposited a copy of
the North Carolina Tapes with Central Data Processing Division
of the North Carohna Department of Administration where they
formed the data base for a Census Data Users Service. From this
developed a close liaison with the Planning Division of the Depart-ment
of Administration which was further assisted by State Lib-rary
acquisition of a complete set of census maps for North Caro-lina
to augment use of the census materials. At the same time
other kinds of federal statistical data was becoming available on
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computer tape and being purchased or considered for purchase
because it permits more detailed data for small geographical areas
than does printed report material. This and other kinds of refer-ence
and documents materials in addition to new services had
increased in-house library use by 56.3% over the previous bien-nium,
and Mrs. Lois S. Neal, successor to Mrs. Price in the Genea-logy
Section, was seeing a gradual increase in use of that service
and anticipating a need to initiate Saturday hours of service in the
fall.
CONSULTANT SERVICES TO OTHER STATE AGENCIES
Growth was also the pattern in consultant service to the librar-ies
of other agencies of State Government during the eighth bien-nium.
Organization and cataloging of libraries in the Office of State
Treasurer, the Commission for the Blind Library of the State
Department of Human Resources and the Museum of Natural
History Library of the State Department of Agriculture were added
to the responsibilities of the State Library Consultant to Libraries
of other State Agencies during the eighth biennium increasing the
number of such libraries under Mrs. Dora Zia's supervision to 8.
ThePubhc Health Library (also in the State Department of Human
Resources), the Division of Community Services and the Forest
Service Libraries (Department of Natural and Economic Re-sources),
the Museum of History Library (Department of Art,
Culture and History), and the Legislative Library of the General
Assembly continued under the general supervision of Mrs. Zia and
her assistant while the Budget Division Library in the Department
of Administration, the Social Services Library of the Department
of Human Resources, the State Parks Library collection of the
Department of Natural and Economic Resources, the Board of
Higher Education Library, and the Rockingham County Health
Department Library all called upon the services of the section one
or more times during the biennium.
TECHNICAL SERVICES DIVISION
The mandate given with respect to reorganization of the Tech-nical
Services Division under Mrs. Marion M. Johnson's continuing
direction was that there should be coordination and merger of
similar functions between Processing Center operations and in-house
preparations of materials in the eighth biennium. As a con-
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sequence acquisition of in-house materials was coordinated with
Processing Center ordering and physical processing functions
for both were completely consolidated. The overall results have
been better end-products at less expense. It has also become pos-sible
despite a biennial increase in the State Library book budget
of approximately 70% to absorb increases without increasing per-sonnel
and to reassume responsibilities for acquiring and keeping
records for newspapers, periodicals, and microfilm and of prepar-ing
materials for binding and preservation.
Along with these coordinating activities cataloging continued
with Ms. Dorothy Grigg's usual attention to excellence and the card
catalog expanded from 432 to 576 drawers while the shelf-list
grew from 150 to 180 drawers. Recataloging of the old lOO's,
500's, and 600's in Dewey were completed and work had begun
on the 200's and 700's. These changes were necessary to bring the
collection into line with changes in the 1 8th edition of Dewey.
In the meanwhile, the Processing Center had its most productive
biennium since it came into being in 1960. 303,783 books were
ordered, cataloged and processed for 57 public library systems
covering 87 counties in addition to the 7,929 non-fiction titles
ordered and processed for the State Library collection. The Pro-cessing
Center had exceeded processing a million volumes in its
first 12 years of existence by 261,269 at the end of the biennium.
It is also significant that the Processing Center Duplicating
Center had improved its performance to the point of being able
to assume and handle with appreciable dispatch the duplication
of cards for the libraries of other State Government Agency
libraries, the North Carolina Union Catalog and a substantial
portion of the State Library's in-house collection cards in addi-tion
to meeting its primary responsibilities to the Processing
Center. The Duplicating Center had assumed the tasks of reproduc-ing
printed reports, bibliographies, forms, letterheads, etc., for
other divisions of the State Library at the time it was reconstituted
as an operation of the Department of Art, Culture and History
with the understanding that Processing Center functions were to
continue as its first priority.
PUBLIC LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
The Public Library Development Division wliich has primary
responsibility for advising local governments and interested citi-zens
of ways and means of providing and improving public library
services with local, state and federal funds continued through the
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eighth biennium with Ms. Elaine von Oesen as Acting Director.
She reported in December, 1972, that the division had met its
responsibilities in the eighth biennium effectively, but minimally
with two special consultants, one for Young Adult Services and
one for Children's Services, one general consultant, one field
librarian, an audiovisual specialist and an auditor with the capable
assistance of stenographic and other supportive staff including a
special labor consultant for construction projects.
George D. Garretson had filled the position of General Con-sultant
for the first 18 months of the biennium before leaving
to become director of the Roanoke County Pubhc Library in
Virginia, and Jerry W. Brownlee, formerly the director of the
Haywood County Library in North Carolina came to the staff
as General Consultant effective March 1, 1972. Ms. von Oesen
and the State Librarian supplemented the capable efforts of these
gentlemen in trying to meet the demands for general consultant
service. Mr. Garretson had visited 170 libraries during his time
with the division in the eighth biennium and had conducted two
workshops having to do with Reference Services and Weeding
respectively. Mr. Brownlee began with an orientation tour of
public libraries across the state, conducted a regional workshop
on Attitudes and Program Planning and addressed learning center
personnel of Community Colleges and Technical Institutes on areas
of cooperation between these institutions and pubhc libraries.
Ms. Nancy O'Neal, Field Librarian, served Franklin County
from November, 1970 to June, 1971 and Duplin County from
December, 1971 to May, 1972, in lieu of professional librarians
in those locations. She was instrumental in relocating and revitali-zing
the Franklinton Branch of the former. She also worked
closely with Library Services and Construction Act projects for
the disadvantaged and was especially helpful in Bladen County. In
July and August of 1971 she pioneered in an investigation of
public library services for pre-school children in North Carolina
as a member of the staff of the School of Library Science of North
Carolina Central University while on leave from the State Library,
and she has served as editor of the North Carolina State Library
News Letter through most of the eighth biennium.
Ryland Johnson, Division Auditor, supported the services of
the Public Library Development Division by installing accounting
systems in 5 public libraries in line with county and/or municipal
fiscal systems and made periodic visits to advise on accounting
problems or to audit libraries. He also conducted the annual
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collection of statistics from academic, public and special libraries
as required by the General Statutes while Mr. Gil Taylor checked,
under a contractual agreement with the State Library, on con-formity
to labor regulations on minimum rates for public library
construction projects under Title II of the Library Services and
Construction Act. This meant that he worked with the construc-tion
of new buildings or renovated and expanded buildings in
Anson, Avery, Gaston, Lee, Randolph and Rockingham Counties.
Ms. Jane B. Wilson, Children's Services Consultant, conducted
13 workshops and talked with more than 150 other groups about
storytelling, the Right to Read Program, and special subjects. She
was appointed by the State Librarian to be the official representa-tive
and participant of the State Library for the Southeastern
States Cooperative Library Survey and the Right to Read Pro-gram
in North Carolina and also served the Southeastern Library
Association as its representative for the program. She was a mem-ber
of the Governor's Commission on Children and Youth during
the eighth biennium and collaborated with the Special Services
Division of the State Library in a workshop at the C. A. Dihon
School, Butner, for state institutional personnel concerned with
library services to children and young people.
Ms. Nancy F. Wallace, Consultant on Young Adult Services,
conducted 8 workshops on young adult services often covering as
many as 1 2 counties in a single workshop. She used young people
on her programs to discuss books they had read, to react to new
films and to be frank with librarians regarding services which met
or failed to meet their special needs. Ms. Wallace also conducted
a statewide poll to determine which books high school students
throughout the state were reading for pleasure. Some 60,000
students participated, and partially attributable to their response
was the preparation of an extraordinarily attractive 8 panel reading
list illustrated by the Wake County Public Library's talented Anne
Hill and entitled Outta Sight! Insight: A List for Young Adults.
The list was prepared and printed by the State Library in coopera-tion
with the Public Libraries Section of the North Carolina Lib-rary
Association.
Ms. Marilin Rose, Audiovisual Specialist in the division, con-ducted
three workshops around the state during the biennium
including one in the form of a preconference institute leading
into the 1971 Conference of the North Carolina Library Associa-tion.
In tile meanwhile it was brought to her attention late in the
biennium that she and the State Librarian had unwittingly ac-
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cepted a statement that materials purchased with Federal funds
supporting the film program were "specifically prohibited from
being used by schools and other academic institutions serving a
special clientele," and each had quoted authoritatively by tele-phone
and in letters this supposed restriction that was in fact
opposed to a federal interpretation of the language of the Act
publicized four years earlier. Consequently, they began immediate-ly
with the urging of Secretary Sam Ragan to correct the misin-formation
and to plan to extend the availability of film service
although it was recognized by all three of them and others that a
limited collection and limited staff and facilities would make any
expansion difficult.
Ms. von Oesen conducted three workshops to explain the new
emphases of the Library Services and Construction Act early in
the biennium. She also attended all three phases of an Institute
on Statewide Library Planning and evaluation conducted by a
team from Ohio State University either in Columbus, Ohio, or
Washington, D.C., and she helped plan and participated as a
speaker in both Annual Trustee-Librarian Institutes cosponsored
by the Institute of Government and the State Library. She
represented the State Librarian and acted for him in his absence
in numerous meetings and conferences during the biennium, and
her overall contributions to library development in North Carolina
during the period were especially significant.
Ms. von Oesen completed her term as President of the South-eastern
Library Association in the fall of 1970, and was appointed
to the Editorial Board of the American Library Association in the
spring of 1972. Mrs. Marian Leith continued to serve the Round
Table for the Blind and related American Library Association
sections and division throughout the biennium. Mr. Ogilvie served
as President of the Association of State Library Agencies for FY
1971 and completed a four-year term as a member of the Govern-ing
Council of the American Library Association in June, 1971.
Other members of the staff served the North Carolina Library
Association in various capacities with the distinction typical of
Office of State Library Personnel in service to libraries and
hbrarianship.
23 IN RETROSPECT
The eighth biennium of the Office of State Library was a good
one far more distinguished for dramatic breakthroughs in services
fostered and given than discouraged by the traumas of loss and
change. The ninth biennium beckoned it with new challenges
from which it showed no will to shrink, for the remembered scent
of victories won tantahzed it into panting pursuit of victories yet
to be won. One has but to peruse the following graphs and statis-tical
summaries to understand that there can be no slowing down
or turning back. The words to be heard are "Right On!"
PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDINGS
New Buildings Appalachian funds LSCA II Local TOTAL
Avery County $ 40,000 $ 50,488 $ 82,704 $173,192
Newland
Reidsville Public 50,487 284,344 334,831
Reidsville
Randleman Public 44,550 103,950 148,500
Randleman
Broadway Branch 13,000 31,500 44,500
Lee County, Broadway
Renovation
Anson County 50,488 147,509 197,997
Wadesboro
Addition:
Cherryville Branch 31,221 84,413 115,634
Gaston County, Cherryville
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SPECIAL SERVICES DIVISION
!.086
3,152
!.598
4.681
5,843
7,590
1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972
Blind and Physically Handicapped Served by the Special Services Division
of the North Carolina Office of State Library
NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY
SPECIAL SERVICES DIVISION
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Total Average Institutional Population
18,840
18,200
15.204
14,294
11,474
2,199
1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1971
Institutional Population Served by the Special Services Division
of the North Carolina Office of State Library
26 N. C. OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY FILM SERVICE
Report of Use
Type of Audience
NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY 2
Processing Center Volume
1960-1972
May-June 1960 2,405
1960-1961 60,516
1961-1962 60,209
1962-1963 74,801
1963-1964 79.384
1964-1965 , 88,589
1965-1966 93,771
1966-1967 106,617
1967-1968 123,436
1968-1969 134,141
1969-1970 133,617
1970-1971 158,561
1971-1972 145,222
Total 1,261,269
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INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION 30
1970-1972 Biennium
Interlibrary loan requests (titles): Mail 14 J71
In-WATS 25,450
Total Interlibrary loan titles requested: 40,221
Locations requested: 13,747
Locations received: 8,878
Per cent received: 64%
Interlibrary loan requests received from institutions: (Mail and In-WATS)
Community colleges/technical institutes 1,599 5%
Colleges and universities 1,986 6%
High schools 284 1%
Special libraries 536 2%
Public libraries 28,676 86%
Total 33,081
Total In-WATS calls: 18,610
North Carolina Information Project Requests: 42,860
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Statistical Summary 1960-1972
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STATISTICAL SUMMARY
July 1, 1970 -June 30, 1972
7-1-70 6-30-72
Total number public libraries 299 327
Regional (47 counties) 15 15
County (includes municipal libraries 53 53
serving county)
Independent municipal 33 34
Branch 198 225
Total bookmobiles serving 94 counties 82 82
Population with access to public libraries (100%) .... 5,082,059
July 1.1970 June 30, 1972
Total book stock 5,697,443 6,224,092
volumes per capita 1.12 1.22
Total circulation 13,906,899 14,999,257
(Includes bookmobile circulation) 3,694,566 3,508,421
Source of library income
FY 1971 Amt. FY 1972 Amt. FY 1972 % Per Capita
City or Town $2,243,821 $ 2,664,469 24 $ .52
County 4,026,268 5,000,936 44 .98
State Aid 1,293,125 2,000,000 18 .39
Federal Aid 520,584 735,243 7 .15
Other 742,736 845,955 7 .17
$8,826,534 $11,246,603 100 $2.21
Operating expenditures:
Personnel Costs $5,438,085 $ 6,909,283 64 $1.36
Library Materials 1,760,581 2,452,002 23 .48
Other 1,166,531 1,346,778 13 .27
$8,365,197 $10,708,063 100 $2.11
Capital expenditures $1,211,661 $ 1,300,698
Libraries with tax votes 30 31
Counties 16 16
(Anson, Caldwell, Cherokee, Cumberland, Davidson,
Forsyth, Gaston, Granville, McDowell, Mecklenburg,
Montgomery, Polk, Rockingham, Rutherford,
Sampson, Union)
Cities 14 15
(Aulander, Black Mountain, Granite Falls, Greensboro,
Henderson, Hickory, High Point, Pinebluff, Rocking-ham,
Statesville, Wallace, Washington, Weldon,
Whiteville, plus Mount Airy - 1972)

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EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT
OF THE
STATE mUM
(Reorganized July 1, 1956)
July 1,1970- June 30, 1972
Raleigh
North Carolina
EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT
OF THE
STATE LIByRY
(Reorganized July 1, 1956)
July 1, 1970- June 30, 1972
Raleigh
North Carolina
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
Raleigh, North Carohna
To His Excellency ROBERT W. SCOTT
Governor of North Carolina, Raleigh
My dear Sir:
We have the honor to submit to you the Eighth Biennial Report
of the North Carolina State Library covering the biennium ending
June 30, 1972. This is in compliance with the General Statutes of
North Carolina, Chapter 125.
Respectfully submitted,
MRS. GORDON TOMLINSON
Chairman, North Carolina State
Library Board
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Service and Organizational Chart 6
Board Members and Administration 7
Appropriations and Expenditures — State Funds 8
Appropriations and Expenditures — Federal Funds 9
Narrative Report 12
Special Projects 14
Special Services Division 15
Information Services Division 16
Consultant Services to Other State Agencies 18
Technical Services Division 18
Public Library Development Division 19
In Retrospect 23
Statistical Data 24
NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY 7
BOARD
Appointed by the Governor:
MRS. GORDON TOMLINSON, Mocksville, Chairman
Term Expires 1973
MRS. MOLLIE HUSTON LEE, Durham Term Expires 1973
MRS. T.T. POTTER, Beaufort Term Expires 1977
MR. ROBERT B. WILSON, Winston-Salem Term Expires 1975
MR. JOHN DAYTON WINEBARGER, Boone Term Expires 1977
MRS. JULIAN E. WINSLOW, Hertford Term Expires 1975
Ex Officio:
DR. JERROLD ORNE, Chapel Hill
DR. A. CRAIG PHILLIPS, Raleigh
STATE LIBRARIAN - Philip S. Ogilvie
ASSISTANT STATE LIBRARIAN - Elaine von Oesen
BUDGET. PERSONNEL. AND PURCHASING OFFICER -
Mrs. Ruby B. Holloway
ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY TO STATE LIBRARIAN -
Mrs. Betsy N. Pearce
EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT
FINANCIAL REPORT
EXPENDITURES
State Funds
NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY
EXPENDITURES
Federal Funds
10 EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT
EXPENDITURES
Federal Funds — Continued
NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY 11
EXPENDITURES
Federal Funds — Continued
12 EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT
OF THE
NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY
Biennial reports are essentially recorded history. As such they
include both drama and trauma as interacting forces shaping pro-gress
for the covered period and laying a foundation for future
developments. Both were present and active in the eighth bien-nium
of the North Carolina State Library, now officially designated
as the Office of State Library of the North Carolina Department
of Art, Culture and History, and in the libraries and institutions
with which it collaborates in service to the people of the state.
Each left its mark upon the biennium and its influence to bear
upon the future as State Library and cooperating agencies made
their ways with varied gaits, sometimes skipping across sunny
meadows of progress, but as often lumbering through shadowy
jungles of problems from July 1, 1970 through June 30, 1972.
The eighth biennial journey of the State Library and its com-panions
in service got off to a good start. Encouragement and
support of library-aware, library-concerned Governor, State Legis-lature
and Congressional Delegation plus that of other friends of
libraries including library-dedicated local and state Ubrary boards
and staffs. North Carolinians for Better Libraries and state, regional
and national library associations were easily discernible. The Ad-visory
Budget Commission held a special hearing on the programs
and long-range goals of the State Library weeks in advance of the
usual budget request hearings. Governor Robert W. Scott made a
major library oriented speech early in the biennium and Mrs.
Scott made two. The Governor also moved to sustain the strength
of and improve the geographical representation of the State Lib-rary
Board of Trustees by appointing to its membership for terms
ending June 30, 1975, Robert B. Wilson, Jr., of Forsyth County
and Mrs. Julian E. Winslow of Perquimans County each of whom
brought to it interest and enthusiasm to match that of Paul S.
Ballance and Richard C. Erwin, Sr., both of Forsyth County whose
terms had expired. Later Governor Scott appointed to that body
Mrs. Mollie H. Lee of Durham County to complete the unexpired
term of Mrs. Lois S. Neal of Catawba County who had resigned
to rejoin the staff of the State Library and whose term on the
board was to run through June 30, 1973, and still later he reap-
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pointed to the board for terms to expire June 30, 1977, Mrs. T.T.
Potter of Carteret County and John Dayton Winebarger of Watauga
County thereby maintaining wide geographical representation and
restoring minority representation on the board as begun by former
Governor Dan K. Moore.
In the meanwhile, the 1969 General Assembly had already pro-vided
an increase of $500,000 in Aid to Public Libraries for 1970-
1971, and among electees to the State Legislature in the fall of
1970 were numerous senators and representatives of both major
political parties who were outspokenly interested in providing
additional Aid to Public Libraries as well as particularly interested
in increasing support of the State Library itself to enable it to
increase its services with less reliance on unpredictable federal
funding. Of special interest to them was expansion and improve-ment
of the North Carolina Interhbrary Services Network linking
academic, public and special libraries with and through the State
Library by telecommunications for the sharing of information and
materials resources. And, when the 1971 General Assembly ad-journed
it had added well over half a million dollars for these pur-poses
for the second year of the eighth biennium with $200,000
earmarked for increased Aid to Public Libraries and about $136,
000 for the North Carolina Interlibrary Services Network.
Even so, the eighth biennium was filled with apprehension
about the possible effects of State Government Reorganization.
The State Library Board expressed a specific desire to be tied in
with Education if the State Library could not remain a separate
entity and the State Librarian suggested as an alternative the possi-ble
creation of a State Department of Information Resources of
which the State Library would be a component. Consequently ini-tial
reaction to inclusion in the Department of Art, Culture and
History was disappointment. After the Honorable Sam Ragan was
appointed first Secretary of the new department, however, reor-ganization
moved forward amicably and with reassurance that the
long-range goals of the State Library had not suffered in the trans-lation.
There was also concern at the beginning and throughout the
biennium about rumored changes of emphasis in priorities for
expenditure of funds received under the Library Services and
Construction Act as well as fear that the Act might not be funded
at all by Congress in the face of Administration inclinations to
phase out catagorical grant programs in favor of as yet inade-quately
defined revenue sharing proposals. As it turned out changes
in priorities did occur along with an increase in funding of the Act,
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and some public librarians met the challenge with some startlingly
imaginative and productive projects bearing little resemblance to
traditional library services with the result that drama seemed
clearly to be triumphing over trauma and confidence was allaying
fear.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
13 special public Hbrary projects directed to the needs of the
disadvantaged won approval of the State Library Board in the
second year of the biennium for funding under Title I of the
Library Services and Construction Act. One having to do with
the acquisition of Black literature and requiring $56,420 for im-plementation
was designed to give every county a share in this
high priority funding. Another, "Public Library Action for Child-ren's
Education (PLACE)," conceived by Mrs. Patricia H. Heide-mann,
Children's Librarian, Forsyth County Library, fostered and
encouraged by Paul S. Ballance, retiring Forsyth County Library
Director, and Nicholas M. Meiszer, Forsyth County Manager, and
refined by Ms. Jane B. Wilson, Children's Services Specialist on
the State Library staff, won the immediate attention and plaudits
of regional and national library officials involved with federally
funded library programs and attracted the interest of local and
regional Model Cities officials in working cooperatively with it.
The project had built into it unlimited research possibilities, inten-tional
involvement of inner-city residents and socially rehabilitated
persons as staff and sophisticated plans for evaluation of the pro-gram
by an academic consortium representing varied disciphnes.
It also had the distinction of being one of the largest, if not the
largest, public library project for the disadvantaged developed
with Library Services and Construction Act funds in the Southeast,
and was visited in February, 1972, by Henry T. Drennan, Senior
Program Officer, Library Research and Development, United
States Office of Education, Washington, D. C, and Ms. Shirley
Brother, Library Services Program Officer, Bureau of Libraries
and Learning Resources, United States Office of Education, Region
IV, Atlanta, Georgia.
Other approved projects, some of them equally exciting but of
smaller proportions, were "Parnassus Project (Outreach Program of
Library Services to the Economically Disadvantaged)," Gaston-
Lincoln Regional Library; "Project Outreach," Bladen County
Public Library; "Multi-Media on Wheels," Columbus County
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Public Library; "Humpty-Dumpty (Appalachian Outreach Pro-gram),"
Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional Library; "Extension Ser-vice,"
Randolph Public Library; "In with the People," Pubhc
Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County; "Special Library
Services for the Disadvantaged," Sandhill Regional Library Sys-tem;
"Services to Elderly, Disabled and Handicapped," Central
North Carolina Regional Library; "Operation Weekend," North-western
Regional Library; "REACH (Reaching Every Adult and
Child Here)," Appalachian Regional Library and "Library Service
for the Aging," Durham City-County Pubhc Library.
SPECIAL SERVICES DIVISION
While such public library projects for the disadvantaged were
making history across the state, the Special Services Division of
the State Library directed by Mrs. Marian P. Leith was using
Title IV-A and IV-B funds from the Library Services and Construc-tion
Act and increases in state support to make history in state
institutions and in serving the physically handicapped including
the blind throughout North Carolina. 18,840 institutionalized
North Carolinians were receiving library services at the end of the
eighth biennium as compared with only 15,204 two years earher.
Of the less than 10,000 of the estimated total average institu-tionalized
population of 27.000 annually who were not yet re-ceiving
such services most were in road camps of the State Depart-ment
of Corrections. Even inmates of those institutions vvere
participating in a pilot paperback project in 14 camps in Western
North Carolina and some other camps around the state were re-ceiving
service from nearby public libraries. Among the latter was
a library program initiated by the Appalachian Regional Library
in Wilkes County with special encouragement from Regional
Library Director Charles Abel and formally inaugurated by Com-missioner
Lee Bounds.
Simultaneous with these developments were increases in service
to the physically handicapped including the blind. Talking Book
service continued to be in most demand, but there were steady
increases in the use of Braille, tapes and the newer cassettes. North
Carolina users of these services increased from 4,681 to 7,590 dur-ing
the biennium and an additional 2,545 South Carolina readers
being served by contract from our Dale Street headquarters in
Raleigh were taxing the capacities of staff and quarters to keep up
with circulation and housing of the Talking Book collection in
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particular. As a consequence a decision was made at the end of the
eighth biennium to notify the South Carolina State Library that
effective July 1, 1973, it would be expected to assume responsi-bility
for Talking Book service in that state although our Special
Services Division would continue to handle Braille, tape and cass-ette
services for South Carolinians under an adjusted contract if
that was desired.
INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION
The Information Services (formerly Reference Services) Divi-sion,
too, saw dramatic growth during the eighth biennium. It
also experienced its own particular trauma that was felt through-out
the State Library when Genealogy Librarian Margaret Bird-song
Price, a member of the staff of the State Library in excess
of 44 years, died September 6, 1971, after a brief bout with can-cer.
It has been noted elsewhere that despite her preoccupation
with the past as a genealogist, Margaret Price was attuned to the
times in which she lived and was turned off completely by inflexi-ble,
self-righteous traditionalists who made of rank, race, religion
and imaginary slights cases for disruptive actions and attitudes
undermining staff performance and morale. One of her last major
contributions to the overall good of the State Library and the
specific resolution of a divisional problem was the quiet conduct-ing
of an informal survey of staff preferences for a successor to
Ms. M. Sangster Parrott who had resigned as division director to
accept a full-time teaching position with the Department of
Library Science at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.
Thus it happened that some new, valuable programs were initiated
and existing programs expanded in the Information Services Divi-sion
during the eighth biennium under the capable leadership of
Ms. Parrott and her successor, David T. Bevan, overwhelming
choice of the majority of the professional and paraprofessional
members of the division staff to succeed Ms. Parrott.
The North Carolina Interlibrary Services Network (IN-WATS)
was expanded to serve Technical Institutes, Community Colleges
and other two-year colleges as promised and brought the number
of academic, public and special libraries being served to 218. Evi-dence
that two-year academic institutions were ready to use this
service was indicated by the fact that of the 18,610 IN-WATS
calls received during the biennium, 861 were received from two-year
colleges and technical institutes during the 9 months they
were eligible to receive the service.
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Contractual arrangements were made with the hbraries at the
University of North Carohna, North Carohna State University,
and Duke University beginning at the same time the service was
expanded to serve two-year institutions and calhng for "on demand
cooperation in supplying network service including information
and library materials by way of reference service, photoduplication
of materials or interlibrary loans." And, Interlibrary Services Net-work
staff at the State Library took on the task of initiating inter-library
loan requests received via IN-WATS from public libraries,
wrote and distributed a manual describing services available and
instructions for use of the network and otherwise improved on
procedures to facilitate rapid and efficient response. In the mean-while,
Title III funds received under the Library Services and Con-struction
Act were still being used to maintain and increase access
to the North Carolina Union Catalog at Chapel Hill, and in the
second year of the biennium over half of the anticipated 104
microfilm reels of that catalog which lists more than 2 milhon
titles and locates them in some type of library in the state were
received at the State Library and in use thereby reducing time lag
caused by TWX requests for locations. In fact public libraries
could be assured that if a location were found for a title in the
state the interlibrary loan form would be typed and in the mail
the same morning and efforts were underway to expedite matters
even farther by arrangements to call ahead to libraries whereof
materials were being requested and to encourage them to get the
materials in the mails to requesting Hbraries in advance of actual
receipt of the interlibrary loan form on the way to them at the
time.
Another development of special significance was the program
for distribution from the 1970 United States Census of Population
and Housing of useful statistical data. The Louis Round Wilson
Library of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the
State Library jointly acquired the 1 970 Census Summary Tapes
for North Carolina and contiguous states and deposited a copy of
the North Carolina Tapes with Central Data Processing Division
of the North Carohna Department of Administration where they
formed the data base for a Census Data Users Service. From this
developed a close liaison with the Planning Division of the Depart-ment
of Administration which was further assisted by State Lib-rary
acquisition of a complete set of census maps for North Caro-lina
to augment use of the census materials. At the same time
other kinds of federal statistical data was becoming available on
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computer tape and being purchased or considered for purchase
because it permits more detailed data for small geographical areas
than does printed report material. This and other kinds of refer-ence
and documents materials in addition to new services had
increased in-house library use by 56.3% over the previous bien-nium,
and Mrs. Lois S. Neal, successor to Mrs. Price in the Genea-logy
Section, was seeing a gradual increase in use of that service
and anticipating a need to initiate Saturday hours of service in the
fall.
CONSULTANT SERVICES TO OTHER STATE AGENCIES
Growth was also the pattern in consultant service to the librar-ies
of other agencies of State Government during the eighth bien-nium.
Organization and cataloging of libraries in the Office of State
Treasurer, the Commission for the Blind Library of the State
Department of Human Resources and the Museum of Natural
History Library of the State Department of Agriculture were added
to the responsibilities of the State Library Consultant to Libraries
of other State Agencies during the eighth biennium increasing the
number of such libraries under Mrs. Dora Zia's supervision to 8.
ThePubhc Health Library (also in the State Department of Human
Resources), the Division of Community Services and the Forest
Service Libraries (Department of Natural and Economic Re-sources),
the Museum of History Library (Department of Art,
Culture and History), and the Legislative Library of the General
Assembly continued under the general supervision of Mrs. Zia and
her assistant while the Budget Division Library in the Department
of Administration, the Social Services Library of the Department
of Human Resources, the State Parks Library collection of the
Department of Natural and Economic Resources, the Board of
Higher Education Library, and the Rockingham County Health
Department Library all called upon the services of the section one
or more times during the biennium.
TECHNICAL SERVICES DIVISION
The mandate given with respect to reorganization of the Tech-nical
Services Division under Mrs. Marion M. Johnson's continuing
direction was that there should be coordination and merger of
similar functions between Processing Center operations and in-house
preparations of materials in the eighth biennium. As a con-
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sequence acquisition of in-house materials was coordinated with
Processing Center ordering and physical processing functions
for both were completely consolidated. The overall results have
been better end-products at less expense. It has also become pos-sible
despite a biennial increase in the State Library book budget
of approximately 70% to absorb increases without increasing per-sonnel
and to reassume responsibilities for acquiring and keeping
records for newspapers, periodicals, and microfilm and of prepar-ing
materials for binding and preservation.
Along with these coordinating activities cataloging continued
with Ms. Dorothy Grigg's usual attention to excellence and the card
catalog expanded from 432 to 576 drawers while the shelf-list
grew from 150 to 180 drawers. Recataloging of the old lOO's,
500's, and 600's in Dewey were completed and work had begun
on the 200's and 700's. These changes were necessary to bring the
collection into line with changes in the 1 8th edition of Dewey.
In the meanwhile, the Processing Center had its most productive
biennium since it came into being in 1960. 303,783 books were
ordered, cataloged and processed for 57 public library systems
covering 87 counties in addition to the 7,929 non-fiction titles
ordered and processed for the State Library collection. The Pro-cessing
Center had exceeded processing a million volumes in its
first 12 years of existence by 261,269 at the end of the biennium.
It is also significant that the Processing Center Duplicating
Center had improved its performance to the point of being able
to assume and handle with appreciable dispatch the duplication
of cards for the libraries of other State Government Agency
libraries, the North Carolina Union Catalog and a substantial
portion of the State Library's in-house collection cards in addi-tion
to meeting its primary responsibilities to the Processing
Center. The Duplicating Center had assumed the tasks of reproduc-ing
printed reports, bibliographies, forms, letterheads, etc., for
other divisions of the State Library at the time it was reconstituted
as an operation of the Department of Art, Culture and History
with the understanding that Processing Center functions were to
continue as its first priority.
PUBLIC LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
The Public Library Development Division wliich has primary
responsibility for advising local governments and interested citi-zens
of ways and means of providing and improving public library
services with local, state and federal funds continued through the
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eighth biennium with Ms. Elaine von Oesen as Acting Director.
She reported in December, 1972, that the division had met its
responsibilities in the eighth biennium effectively, but minimally
with two special consultants, one for Young Adult Services and
one for Children's Services, one general consultant, one field
librarian, an audiovisual specialist and an auditor with the capable
assistance of stenographic and other supportive staff including a
special labor consultant for construction projects.
George D. Garretson had filled the position of General Con-sultant
for the first 18 months of the biennium before leaving
to become director of the Roanoke County Pubhc Library in
Virginia, and Jerry W. Brownlee, formerly the director of the
Haywood County Library in North Carolina came to the staff
as General Consultant effective March 1, 1972. Ms. von Oesen
and the State Librarian supplemented the capable efforts of these
gentlemen in trying to meet the demands for general consultant
service. Mr. Garretson had visited 170 libraries during his time
with the division in the eighth biennium and had conducted two
workshops having to do with Reference Services and Weeding
respectively. Mr. Brownlee began with an orientation tour of
public libraries across the state, conducted a regional workshop
on Attitudes and Program Planning and addressed learning center
personnel of Community Colleges and Technical Institutes on areas
of cooperation between these institutions and pubhc libraries.
Ms. Nancy O'Neal, Field Librarian, served Franklin County
from November, 1970 to June, 1971 and Duplin County from
December, 1971 to May, 1972, in lieu of professional librarians
in those locations. She was instrumental in relocating and revitali-zing
the Franklinton Branch of the former. She also worked
closely with Library Services and Construction Act projects for
the disadvantaged and was especially helpful in Bladen County. In
July and August of 1971 she pioneered in an investigation of
public library services for pre-school children in North Carolina
as a member of the staff of the School of Library Science of North
Carolina Central University while on leave from the State Library,
and she has served as editor of the North Carolina State Library
News Letter through most of the eighth biennium.
Ryland Johnson, Division Auditor, supported the services of
the Public Library Development Division by installing accounting
systems in 5 public libraries in line with county and/or municipal
fiscal systems and made periodic visits to advise on accounting
problems or to audit libraries. He also conducted the annual
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collection of statistics from academic, public and special libraries
as required by the General Statutes while Mr. Gil Taylor checked,
under a contractual agreement with the State Library, on con-formity
to labor regulations on minimum rates for public library
construction projects under Title II of the Library Services and
Construction Act. This meant that he worked with the construc-tion
of new buildings or renovated and expanded buildings in
Anson, Avery, Gaston, Lee, Randolph and Rockingham Counties.
Ms. Jane B. Wilson, Children's Services Consultant, conducted
13 workshops and talked with more than 150 other groups about
storytelling, the Right to Read Program, and special subjects. She
was appointed by the State Librarian to be the official representa-tive
and participant of the State Library for the Southeastern
States Cooperative Library Survey and the Right to Read Pro-gram
in North Carolina and also served the Southeastern Library
Association as its representative for the program. She was a mem-ber
of the Governor's Commission on Children and Youth during
the eighth biennium and collaborated with the Special Services
Division of the State Library in a workshop at the C. A. Dihon
School, Butner, for state institutional personnel concerned with
library services to children and young people.
Ms. Nancy F. Wallace, Consultant on Young Adult Services,
conducted 8 workshops on young adult services often covering as
many as 1 2 counties in a single workshop. She used young people
on her programs to discuss books they had read, to react to new
films and to be frank with librarians regarding services which met
or failed to meet their special needs. Ms. Wallace also conducted
a statewide poll to determine which books high school students
throughout the state were reading for pleasure. Some 60,000
students participated, and partially attributable to their response
was the preparation of an extraordinarily attractive 8 panel reading
list illustrated by the Wake County Public Library's talented Anne
Hill and entitled Outta Sight! Insight: A List for Young Adults.
The list was prepared and printed by the State Library in coopera-tion
with the Public Libraries Section of the North Carolina Lib-rary
Association.
Ms. Marilin Rose, Audiovisual Specialist in the division, con-ducted
three workshops around the state during the biennium
including one in the form of a preconference institute leading
into the 1971 Conference of the North Carolina Library Associa-tion.
In tile meanwhile it was brought to her attention late in the
biennium that she and the State Librarian had unwittingly ac-
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cepted a statement that materials purchased with Federal funds
supporting the film program were "specifically prohibited from
being used by schools and other academic institutions serving a
special clientele," and each had quoted authoritatively by tele-phone
and in letters this supposed restriction that was in fact
opposed to a federal interpretation of the language of the Act
publicized four years earlier. Consequently, they began immediate-ly
with the urging of Secretary Sam Ragan to correct the misin-formation
and to plan to extend the availability of film service
although it was recognized by all three of them and others that a
limited collection and limited staff and facilities would make any
expansion difficult.
Ms. von Oesen conducted three workshops to explain the new
emphases of the Library Services and Construction Act early in
the biennium. She also attended all three phases of an Institute
on Statewide Library Planning and evaluation conducted by a
team from Ohio State University either in Columbus, Ohio, or
Washington, D.C., and she helped plan and participated as a
speaker in both Annual Trustee-Librarian Institutes cosponsored
by the Institute of Government and the State Library. She
represented the State Librarian and acted for him in his absence
in numerous meetings and conferences during the biennium, and
her overall contributions to library development in North Carolina
during the period were especially significant.
Ms. von Oesen completed her term as President of the South-eastern
Library Association in the fall of 1970, and was appointed
to the Editorial Board of the American Library Association in the
spring of 1972. Mrs. Marian Leith continued to serve the Round
Table for the Blind and related American Library Association
sections and division throughout the biennium. Mr. Ogilvie served
as President of the Association of State Library Agencies for FY
1971 and completed a four-year term as a member of the Govern-ing
Council of the American Library Association in June, 1971.
Other members of the staff served the North Carolina Library
Association in various capacities with the distinction typical of
Office of State Library Personnel in service to libraries and
hbrarianship.
23 IN RETROSPECT
The eighth biennium of the Office of State Library was a good
one far more distinguished for dramatic breakthroughs in services
fostered and given than discouraged by the traumas of loss and
change. The ninth biennium beckoned it with new challenges
from which it showed no will to shrink, for the remembered scent
of victories won tantahzed it into panting pursuit of victories yet
to be won. One has but to peruse the following graphs and statis-tical
summaries to understand that there can be no slowing down
or turning back. The words to be heard are "Right On!"
PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDINGS
New Buildings Appalachian funds LSCA II Local TOTAL
Avery County $ 40,000 $ 50,488 $ 82,704 $173,192
Newland
Reidsville Public 50,487 284,344 334,831
Reidsville
Randleman Public 44,550 103,950 148,500
Randleman
Broadway Branch 13,000 31,500 44,500
Lee County, Broadway
Renovation
Anson County 50,488 147,509 197,997
Wadesboro
Addition:
Cherryville Branch 31,221 84,413 115,634
Gaston County, Cherryville
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SPECIAL SERVICES DIVISION
!.086
3,152
!.598
4.681
5,843
7,590
1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972
Blind and Physically Handicapped Served by the Special Services Division
of the North Carolina Office of State Library
NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY
SPECIAL SERVICES DIVISION
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Total Average Institutional Population
18,840
18,200
15.204
14,294
11,474
2,199
1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1971
Institutional Population Served by the Special Services Division
of the North Carolina Office of State Library
26 N. C. OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY FILM SERVICE
Report of Use
Type of Audience
NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY 2
Processing Center Volume
1960-1972
May-June 1960 2,405
1960-1961 60,516
1961-1962 60,209
1962-1963 74,801
1963-1964 79.384
1964-1965 , 88,589
1965-1966 93,771
1966-1967 106,617
1967-1968 123,436
1968-1969 134,141
1969-1970 133,617
1970-1971 158,561
1971-1972 145,222
Total 1,261,269
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1970-1972 Biennium
Interlibrary loan requests (titles): Mail 14 J71
In-WATS 25,450
Total Interlibrary loan titles requested: 40,221
Locations requested: 13,747
Locations received: 8,878
Per cent received: 64%
Interlibrary loan requests received from institutions: (Mail and In-WATS)
Community colleges/technical institutes 1,599 5%
Colleges and universities 1,986 6%
High schools 284 1%
Special libraries 536 2%
Public libraries 28,676 86%
Total 33,081
Total In-WATS calls: 18,610
North Carolina Information Project Requests: 42,860
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Statistical Summary 1960-1972
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STATISTICAL SUMMARY
July 1, 1970 -June 30, 1972
7-1-70 6-30-72
Total number public libraries 299 327
Regional (47 counties) 15 15
County (includes municipal libraries 53 53
serving county)
Independent municipal 33 34
Branch 198 225
Total bookmobiles serving 94 counties 82 82
Population with access to public libraries (100%) .... 5,082,059
July 1.1970 June 30, 1972
Total book stock 5,697,443 6,224,092
volumes per capita 1.12 1.22
Total circulation 13,906,899 14,999,257
(Includes bookmobile circulation) 3,694,566 3,508,421
Source of library income
FY 1971 Amt. FY 1972 Amt. FY 1972 % Per Capita
City or Town $2,243,821 $ 2,664,469 24 $ .52
County 4,026,268 5,000,936 44 .98
State Aid 1,293,125 2,000,000 18 .39
Federal Aid 520,584 735,243 7 .15
Other 742,736 845,955 7 .17
$8,826,534 $11,246,603 100 $2.21
Operating expenditures:
Personnel Costs $5,438,085 $ 6,909,283 64 $1.36
Library Materials 1,760,581 2,452,002 23 .48
Other 1,166,531 1,346,778 13 .27
$8,365,197 $10,708,063 100 $2.11
Capital expenditures $1,211,661 $ 1,300,698
Libraries with tax votes 30 31
Counties 16 16
(Anson, Caldwell, Cherokee, Cumberland, Davidson,
Forsyth, Gaston, Granville, McDowell, Mecklenburg,
Montgomery, Polk, Rockingham, Rutherford,
Sampson, Union)
Cities 14 15
(Aulander, Black Mountain, Granite Falls, Greensboro,
Henderson, Hickory, High Point, Pinebluff, Rocking-ham,
Statesville, Wallace, Washington, Weldon,
Whiteville, plus Mount Airy - 1972)